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Galveston’s
historic square-rigger, the restored 1877 Barque Elissa,
will begin an annual series of spring Sea Trials, seven day sails
and an overnight voyage, on March 20 from the Texas Seaport
Museum at Pier 21. This year’s first outing will include guests from the first annual Gulf Coast Regional Meeting of the American Sail Training Association, a national organization representing hundreds of programs devoted to bringing the sea experience under sail to new generations of Americans. "Since the ship's restoration was completed by the Galveston Historical Foundation in 1982, the Elissa has been perhaps the most successful program in the country to do just that," said a news release. "For the Texas Seaport Museum, sail training, by preserving the skills and lore which make it live and function, is vital to the process of preserving Elissa as a magnificent 19th century artifact." Elissa is maintained by a crew of volunteers who come from all over the state to devote more than 22,000 hours of service to the ship each year. Those volunteers who completed the rigorous sail-training program which began last summer will be serving as crew during the spring Sea Trials. For more information, contact the Texas Seaport Museum online at www.tsm-elissa.org. Hyperlinks will work if this document is read Online
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